Notices by Wuzzy (wuzzy@cyberplace.social)

I urge all developers of #Android apps to NOT pre-emptively obey the new terms of #Google requiring you to sign up for the Android Developer Console.

It looks like Google is attempting a power grab and wants to prevent ALL installations of Android apps without official Google approval; even those installed outside Google Play.

This is an attack on both developer and user freedom and unacceptable.

https://keepandroidopen.org/

#KeepAndroidOpen #VendorLockIn #software #development #FreeSoftware

@GossiTheDog Surprise of the century!!!1!1!1

#PSA: If you are documenting the #ICE operations in the #USA with #video, I am BEGGING you to NOT trust ANY US-based #SocialMedia like #YouTube. There is currently a high risk your uploads will be nuked, shadowbanned or otherwise suppressed, given the recent FISHY #TikTok aquisition.

Backup everything on international servers. Or better: Move ur stuff altogether. Use decentralized tech like #PeerTube. Do it BEFORE the banhammer strikes.

#decentralization #backup #media #journalism #Internet

Is it possible to scroll back in time in a video on #Loops? (loops.video)

#AskMastodon

CONSPIRACY THEORY: The real reason behind forced "age verification" bullshit that more and more laws force in states around the world is that it's secretly the greatest marketing campaign for VPN corporations.

#age #web #VPN #Internet #law #bullshit

New TLDs just dropped:

🌐 .com: community (discussion board)
🌐 .org: oranges, or the color orange, or both
🌐 .net: everything about nets EXCEPT computer networks
🌐 .gov: Grand ObserVatory. Astronomy-related
🌐 .mil: Moms in Love. Lesbian-friendly place
🌐 .int: Integers. Everything about one number, for example: 25.int
🌐 .edu: Ethylene diurea (an organic compund)

#joke #meme #TLD #Internet #DNS

Tip: If you need to look up a post on X.com and already have the link, but you HATE the website, replace X.com with "xcancel.com" in the URL.

This is a #Nitter instance, basically a frontend for X.com.

Much faster response, no forced account needed, no tracking from X.com, lighter JS, free software (AGPLv3), no corporate bullshit. Just the posts.

Remember that X.com is owned by a literal neonazi. Stay safe. And convince your friends to delete their X account. 🙂

#X #XCancel #Twitter #www

@GossiTheDog My brain hurts …

I rewatched it multiple time and each time I found more nonsense. I found 21 inconsistencies so far.

Is this how an LSD trip feels like? 😅

It frustrates me to read in the news that several organizations have started to #trash many functioning computers just because #Windows 10 was EOLed.

WTF. You rather throw away 1000s of computers that weren’t broken and contribute to e-waste than go out of your comfort zone ONCE and learn about #FOSS operating systems?

The e-waste problem is already bad enough, don’t make it WORSE.

#EndOf10 #environment #capitalism

@GossiTheDog literally pay to win 😂

@GossiTheDog How the heck is Cisco still in business after #fail after fail after fail after fail …? 🤔

@GossiTheDog NO MEANS NO!

@nixCraft I remember #SourceForge. One day, it randomly started to force ad-infested "installers" into every software download which probably marked the beginning of its downfall.

And yes, independent FOSS infrastructure is important.

I think #Codeberg/#Forgejo is doing a great job in providing a non-commercial, free-software, no-bullshit software forge. Free software development needs free software tools. It BAFFLES me how this isn’t consensus in the #FOSS community.

@aral

This foundation makes zero sense. Claims to be for the "open future for social networks" but then has Meta a partner, has socials on X and Threads (but somehow not Mastodon (???)). Meta and X are 100% antithetical to this goal, it's all proprietary garbage. They’re enemies, not friends.

Open web, or Meta. Can’t have both.

@Mastodon Can you confirm you’re part of this foundation or is this accusation false? If it is true: When will you leave it?

Dear billion dollar IT corporations: If you think it’s a good idea to automate away #translation: NO.

Behind your back, people who speak other languages than English LAUGH at your terrible AI slop translations full of errors.

Auto-translation is simply not there yet, and anyone who claims otherwise is either delusional or a liar.

#development #IT #capitalism #AI

I wish we live in a world in which the fact a #software is #FreeSoftware does not grant you any extra credit, but is just the expected default. And, that every #proprietary software is considered a social burden, selfish, the "awkward one", has to explain and justify itself, etc.

Currently, it is free software that constantly must explain and justify itself, is treated as "awkward", etc. Which is so annoying.

It's not us who take away your #freedom to use, copy, share and modify.

I think it’s safe to call people nazis if they literally burn LGBTQ+, Black, Jewish books with the explicit goal to "cleanse" libraries.

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/05/man-burns-100-lgbtq-black-jewish-library-books-on-social-media-video/

Like, this is 1:1 what the nazis did in the 1930s.

This is in light of (US) state-ordered book bans directed at several minorities. This may not involve fire or a big show, but the goal is the same: To suppress info inconvenient to their fascist ideology.

#nazi #censorship #BookBurning

@GossiTheDog 😂 This really is the gift that keeps on giving. Why did anyone think this was a great idea?

HUGE #news from #Germany: The #Verfassungsschutz (a spy agency) now has branded the #AfD party as "gesichert rechtsextremistisch", i.e. as certainly extreme rightwing politically.

OK, *that* the AfD is extreme right wansn’t news to political scientists.

But this news is special because many politicians said they will consider voting for starting a legal process that may trigger a party ban (for being anti-constitution) depending on the Verfassungsschutz' report.

https://www.dw.com/en/german-afd-party-labeled-extremist-by-domestic-intelligence-agency/a-72413346

This is an attack on the free #Internet.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/04/25/wikipedia-nonprofit-ed-martin-letter/

#Wikipedia #USA #NonProfit #Wikimedia #tax